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The Social Life of Avatars. Presence and Interaction in Shared Virtual Environments.
Ralph . Ed(S): Schroeder
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Description for The Social Life of Avatars. Presence and Interaction in Shared Virtual Environments.
Paperback. This book brings together work from relevant disciplines to form a reference guide for practitioners, students and researchers interested in how we interact in computer-generated environments. Editor(s): Schroeder, Ralph. Series: Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Num Pages: 237 pages, 47 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: UBJ; UG; UYV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 346.
Virtual reality (VR) technology has been developed commercially since the early 1990s [1]. Yet it is only with the growth of the Internet and other high-bandwidth links that VR systems have increasingly become networked to allow users to share the same virtual environment (VE). Shared YEs raise a number of interesting questions: what is the difference between face-to-face interaction and interaction between persons inside YEs? How does the appearance of the "avatar" - as the graphical representation of the user has become known - change the nature of interaction? And what governs the formation of virtual communities? This volume brings ... Read more
Virtual reality (VR) technology has been developed commercially since the early 1990s [1]. Yet it is only with the growth of the Internet and other high-bandwidth links that VR systems have increasingly become networked to allow users to share the same virtual environment (VE). Shared YEs raise a number of interesting questions: what is the difference between face-to-face interaction and interaction between persons inside YEs? How does the appearance of the "avatar" - as the graphical representation of the user has become known - change the nature of interaction? And what governs the formation of virtual communities? This volume brings ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Springer London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
237
Condition
New
Series
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Number of Pages
223
Place of Publication
England, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852334611
SKU
V9781852334611
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Reviews for The Social Life of Avatars. Presence and Interaction in Shared Virtual Environments.
From the reviews: "At the heart of this book is a simple question: how do people who meet in computer-generated worlds interact? … The strengths of this book lie in what it reveals of the orderliness of interaction in virtual environments. … If you work in this domain, should you have it on your bookshelf? ... Read more